Emma-Jean Lazarus Fell Out of a Tree
From a debut author comes a heart-warming novel about a unique girl and her seventhgrade experiences. Emma-Jean Lazarus is the smartest and strangest girl at William Gladstone Middle School. Her classmates don?t understand her, but that?s okay because Emma-Jean doesn?t quite get them either. But...
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From a debut author comes a heart-warming novel about a unique girl and her seventhgrade experiences. Emma-Jean Lazarus is the smartest and strangest girl at William Gladstone Middle School. Her classmates don?t understand her, but that?s okay because Emma-Jean doesn?t quite get them either. But one afternoon, all that changes when she sees Colleen Pomerantz crying in the girl?s room. It is through Colleen that Emma-Jean gets a glimpse into what it is really like to be a seventh grader. And what she finds will send her tumbling out of a tree and questioning why she ever got involved in the first place.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780142411506 (0142411507)
Publish date: May 15th 2008
Publisher: Puffin
Pages no: 208
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Childrens,
Teen,
Humor,
Funny,
Academic,
School,
Realistic Fiction,
Juvenile,
Middle Grade,
Contemporary
This one was disappointing. I'd read glowing, GLOWING reviews of it from...uh, some kidlit blogger somewhere? And I liked it, and I was interested in it, but the characters didn't feel real to me. I think it was written too much in the headspace of the Emma-Jean and Colleen, the story's two main ...
I love this book! Such unique and endearing characters that also feel familiar and true. I can't believe it took me so long to read this one!
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